Electric battery



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- ELEGTRIG BATTERY. 190,458,898. l l 98888898.1118@ 9,1891.

i I i 1 f f .moon o. BRINKERHOFF, oF 4HnoKnNsACK, AND'MILTON E. SMITH,0F

RUTHERFORD,

ELECTRIC .BAT-relay.

SPEOIFICATIONVfermmg part of Letters Patent No. 45El,898, dated JuneApplication nea November 25,1890.' 151. 972,668. f (Nomad.)

To 'aZZ whom ttm/ty concern: Y f

. ryingat their upper ends the usual .bindingposts E and Fkrespectively.The electrode C in contact with 'the inner as Well as the outer v yof*Rutherford, in the county of vBergen and .The @binnenin .invention isto. provide certain new and useful im rovemerits in electric batterieswhereby the cetro-motive force Reference is'fb drawing, forming a part'of this specification, 1n which the ligure is a sectional side eleva-Be it known that we, JACOB .0.- BRINKER- HOFF, of Hackensack, and MILTONE. SMITH,

State "o f New Jersey, have invented new and useful Improvements inElectric Batteries, of l f llowingjs a full, clear, and exactdescription.

of' the battery is greatly increased and the' electricity produced andpassing in a current is uniform in quantity-and well maintained, so thatthe life of the battery, with an increased 'strength of current,isconsiderably longer than the batteries heretofore constructed. v

l The invention' consists of an excitingffluid formed of antimoniousline chloride.

chloride and an alka- The invention also consists in certain parts anddetails'and combinations ofthe same-,as willbe described hereinafter,andthen pointed out in the claims. I.

be had to the accompanying tion of the improvement.

The improved battery is provided with the usual 'jar A, containing thelexciting-fluid B,

inv whichextend the electrodes C and D, ycari's preferably of vthevusual zinc rod, while the electrode D is fo med of a coppen'cyliuderclosed at its upper end. The exciting-duid is surface of the cylinder,as plainlyshown in .4o 'the drawing, so thatboth faces are acted uponbythe exciting-iuidand the eiiiciencyof the blttery is greatlyincreased.. When the antimoniouschlorideis used singly'as the excit-4ing-fluid for one or both electrcdes,then a "very strong velectriccurrentisproduc'ed forv a great lengthl of time, and when. added -to awell-known exciting-fl uid-such as sal-am moniac, for instance-then thepower offthe said exciting-.fluid to...preg1ncelaurrent of .feiecfticity is great-ly increased.

The exciting-uuid ofthe character describedmay be used both in liquid orsolid'form and.

applied to one vor both electrodes', it being'understood` that in thecommon fjar battery shown. the electrodesffextend into theantibatteriesionly one electrode is immersed in ,the substance. j l

Having thus describedour-invenuon, 'what- We claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is#- 1 1. -An Vexcitin`.,f.1iuid' for electricbatteries, consisting of-antimonions 'chloride andan a1- kalinechloride, substantially as describedf 2.- In an 'electric battery, thecombination,

with an exciting-duid formed of a mixture of vantimon-ious chloride andalkaline chloride, ,of one `or both electrodes engaging the saidexciting-Hind, substantially as described.

3. Inan electric battery, the combination,

with. a 'copper cylindenferming one of the electrodes, rof anexciting-fluid formed ofanf timonious chloride and in .contact vyiththe`inner and outer surfaces of the said cylinder,

substantially as described.

JACOB Q. BRINKERHOFF. MILTON E. SMITH.

Witnesses# 1 WM..'M.SM1TH, v l MIRJWILLIlms.

